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PostWar & Contemporary
3437* STEPHAN KALUZA(Bad Iburg 1964 - lives and works in Düs-
seldorf)
Dürrenmatt.
Oil on canvas.
Signed central right: Stephan Kaluza.
200 x 200 cm.
Provenance:
- Directly acquired from the artist in 2003
by the present owner.
- Sammlung Prinz von Hohenzollern,
Schloss Henley Park, Surrey, Great
Britain.
Stefan Kaluza successfully completed
wide-ranging studies between 1986 and
1994 at Düsseldorf technical college, as
well as a second degree in art history at
the Art Academy and philosophy at the
Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Alongside his studies in painting, Stephan
Kaluza also specialised in photography.
From 2004 he created a growing number
of photographic projects, “based on the
mind, compressing complex physical and
mental objects photographically in the
horizontal format, so that they can be
experienced in visual terms.” (Stephan
Kaluza 2009). These are mostly in panora-
mic formats, reinforced by the continuous
flow of the rural landscape or processes
before the eyes of the viewer. In the pain-
ted works, the horizontal movement also
appears.
He is known for his portrait paintings of
famous personalities, including Nelson
Mandela, Oscar Wilde, Peter Ustinov or
the author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, as in
the work before us. Stephan Kaluza often
uses photographic works as his model;
he applies a top layer of oil paint horizon-
tally using a spatula technique, and adds
incised horizontal lines in the fresh paint, in
order to accentuate the flowing move-
ment.
From 2000 to the present, Stephan
Kaluza’s work has been exhibited in nu-
merous solo shows as well as group shows.
His works are present in public and private
collections worldwide.
CHF 1 500 / 2 500
(€ 1 390 / 2 310)